+1000 to this. At my first startup after college (~2000-2002), I remember clearly our first "deployment" for a paid customer -- we had to order $thousands in S

+1000 to this. At my first startup after college (~2000-2002), I remember clearly our first "deployment" for a paid customer -- we had to order $thousands in Sun SPARC machines, rent a rack at a local data center, hire someone to set it all up, etc. etc. etc. I don't think people appreciate what an absolute miracle the various cloud providers are. I'd say it was 100x - 1000x improvement, not just 10x.